Toilet article



W. H. ROYSTONE.

TOILET ARTICLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJ. 1920.

1,388,204. .Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

INVENTOR waste o UNITED STATES* PA'IENT oFFlcl-z.

TOILET ARTICLE. 'l

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application iiled Augult 7, 1920. Serial No. 402,003.

T o all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HERBERT RoYs'roNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toilet Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toilet articles and more particularl to the provision of an improved packet o toilet powder such as face powder2 nail powder, rouge or the like.

Theinvention seeks to provide a packet of 'toilet owder in which the powder shall be so con ned as to prevent waste of the substance while in use, and obviate untidiness incident to such waste, and that shall preserve the mass at all times in a neat and satisfactory condition while permitting the owder to be freely dispensed by the user. lileretofore, these powders have been put up in packages in which the powder is either in loose form in its container or is in the form of an uncovered or unconfined comp act or cake. Where the powder is put up in loose form, the applicator by which itis applied, such for example, as a powder pu, picks up from the mass an excess of the powder and makes it enerally impossible to use such loose pow er without waste or without an'untidyspilling of the powder. If the ackage should be dropped, much f) the powder and general untidiness result. Vhere the powder is put up in the form of a compact or cake, the cake frequently breaks or crumbles before it reaches the user, and so becomes unsalable. And if it reaches the user intact, it frequently breaks and crumbles while `in use, thereby becoming unsatisfactory and ditlicult to use and likely to spill from its container and so causing waste and untidiness. These disadvantages are overcome in my improved packet wherein the powder is compressed and is covered by a pervious fabric sufiiciently loose to permit the fabric to be slightly moved over the surface of the compressed mass by rubbing the fabric covering, as by means of a powder puff or other suitable applicator. p

The accompanying drawings [show one method of making my improved packet and also the packet.

Figure 1 illustrates the elements which generally go to make up a packet of face powder and a mold useful in making the packet.

the parts assembled in is placed over the mold and the powder 10 is then pressed into the mold with the fabric 11 covering the interior of the mold. A disk of cardboard, tin or other suitable thin, sheet material is then applied to the upper surface of the mass and the edges of the cloth are brought over the u per margin of the disk and fastened in p ace, as by an adhesive. The packet as thus assembled is then removed from the mold 13 and reduced in size. This is referably done by compressing the pac et into a second and slightly smaller mold. This reduction in the size of the compressed mass of powder slightly loosens the cloth covering 11 and makes it slightly movable over the face of the compressed mass so that when it is moved, as by rubbing an applicator over the cloth covering, the covering slightlly abrades the surface of the com ressed mass and loosens a small amount o?) the powder which passes through the cloth and on to the app pleted, is shown in Fig. 3.

In marketing the powder as a face powder or rouge, the packet A is generally removably fitted into a vanity box 15 having a bottom 14 and a cover 17, and the box is of such depth as to permit of a puff or applicator 16 being inclosed beneath the cover 17.

It will be seen that the compressed powder remains permanently inclosed in its cloth covering which acts to protect the compact and tends to prevent it from breaking either in shipment or in use. Even though the compact should become broken, the cloth covering 11 serves to maintain the powder in substantially its ori inal form and in salablefand usable con ition and prevents 4theescape of the powder.

It isv preferable to apply the powder by means ofjan applicator, such as the powder puff 16. The applicator is rubbed over the Patented Aug".v 23, 1921. i

icator. The packet A, as thus com` surface of the covering 11 to obtain its suplitt e, if any, more powder than is actually meshes of thesame and detac powder,

i amount so that waste and spilling thereof is revented. And the applicator picks up re uired for immediate use. (larious procedures may be. followed in making thepacket and in making it so that the cloth covering has the required looseness and I do not desire to be restricted to thel rticular procedure that I have described gir making it nor to all the details of struc# ture herein described,

- a ooverin What is claimed is: 4 l v 1. A toilet powder soket comprising a compressed mass of toilet powder having a covering of pervious fabric sufficiently loosel to admit of its being moved over the surface cake of face powder, rouge or the l1 e and of the inclosed mass byrubbingi' y 2. A toilet powder packet comprising a cake of' toilet. owder, a backing of stiff, sheet material or one face of the cake and of peivious fabriclfor the 're mainder o the cake fastened to said backing, said coverin bein capable of movement over the sur ace o Ithe cake to abrade its surface and detach a quantity of the powder.

3. The process of making a toilet powder packet which consists in ressing a quantity of the owder-into a mo dfwith `a pervious fabric interposed between the mold and the powder, fastening the fabric as -a covering about the compressed powder,then reducing this action the cover-v nee-anos l powder, a plying a backin Aof stiff sheet maf terial to t e upperface of t e powder, fastenf ing the fabric to the backing as a covering for the complressed powder, then reducing render the cover relatively loose, for the lpurpose set forth. y

5. A toilet article comprising-a compressed cake offface powder, rouge or the like, a backin of sheet material for one face of the ca e and a covering of porous fabric for the remainder ofthe surface of the cake fastened to the backing b an adhesive, said covering being suilicienty loose `so that it may be moved by a powder puff.

6.V A toilet article comprising a com ressed a covering of porous. fabric, said fabric being sufci'entl loose so that it maybe moved over the su ace of the cake by a. ,powder 7. TheI combination with a' substantially flat mass of compressed face powder, rouge or the like, of a loose fabric covering therefor, which covering permits a small amount of the powder to pass through the same only when rubbed as by a powder p uil' 'or the like, said covering further retaining the unsifted material in serviceable form or condition.

'WILLIAM HERBERT ROYSTONE.

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